BNRE vs. AIZ, PNFP, COLD, BPOP, RHP, STAG, ZION, HLNE, CACC, and FR
Should you be buying Brookfield Reinsurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Reinsurance include Assurant (AIZ), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Popular (BPOP), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), STAG Industrial (STAG), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Credit Acceptance (CACC), and First Industrial Realty Trust (FR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE:BNRE) and Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Assurant shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Assurant shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Brookfield Reinsurance pays out 110.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Assurant pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Assurant has a consensus price target of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.04%. Given Assurant's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Brookfield Reinsurance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Assurant. Assurant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Reinsurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assurant has a net margin of 6.73% compared to Brookfield Reinsurance's net margin of 0.08%. Assurant's return on equity of 20.08% beat Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity.
Assurant received 285 more outperform votes than Brookfield Reinsurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.58% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Brookfield Reinsurance an outperform vote.
Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assurant has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Assurant had 14 more articles in the media than Brookfield Reinsurance. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Assurant and 5 mentions for Brookfield Reinsurance. Assurant's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Brookfield Reinsurance's score of 0.62 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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